{"id":632442,"date":"2025-12-14T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632442\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:55:19","slug":"fire-crews-rush-to-glasgow-street-as-smoke-billows-from-city-centre-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/632442\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire crews rush to Glasgow street as smoke billows from city centre drain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three fire appliances responded to the incident on Sunday afternoon, with a power outage also reported in the area.<\/p>\n

18:06, 14 Dec 2025Updated 18:06, 14 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"Crews(Image: Joe Scotting)<\/p>\n

Firefighters have rushed to the centre of Glasgow<\/a> following reports of smoke billowing from a drain. Three fire engines arrived on Renfield Street after the alert was sounded at 2.24pm on Sunday, December 14.<\/p>\n

The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service<\/a> confirmed that crews are currently investigating the incident, which has also resulted in a power cut in the vicinity. Further details about the situation remain undisclosed.<\/p>\n

Images show a safety cordon around the smoking drain, with firefighters visible as they conduct their investigation, torches in hand.<\/p>\n

\"FireFire crews are on the scene(Image: Joe Scotting)<\/p>\n

Eyewitness Joe Scotting recounted: “I was just getting off the bus by Cash Converters with my mate and suddenly we see a totally black and smoking pavement slab.<\/p>\n

“Out of nowhere, some firefighters swarm the area and cordon it off. They lifted it, and this giant waft of smoke blew up.”, reports Glasgow Live<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A representative for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service stated: “We are there investigating smoke coming out of a drain and there is a power outage in the area.<\/p>\n

“There are three fire engines in attendance and we got the original call at 2.24pm.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three fire appliances responded to the incident on Sunday afternoon, with a power outage also reported in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":632443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,1143,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-632442","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-scottish-fire-and-rescue-service","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/632443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}